We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2 release: Version 2.0.14.

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. 

GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.10) in
that it splits up functionality into several modules.  However, both
versions may be installed alongside without any conflict.  In fact,
the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as
included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching.  The
advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on
other modules at run and build time.  We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1
versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server
based applications requiring only OpenPGP support.

GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL version 3).  GnuPG-2 works best on GNU/Linux or *BSD systems.


What's New
==========
 * The default for --include-cert is now to include all certificates
   in the chain except for the root certificate.

 * Numerical values may now be used as an alternative to the
   debug-level keywords.

 * The GPGSM --audit-log feature is now more complete.

 * GPG now supports DNS lookups for SRV, PKA and CERT on W32.

 * New GPGSM option --ignore-cert-extension.

 * New and changed passphrases are now created with an iteration count
   requiring about 100ms of CPU work.



Getting the Software
===================
Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/
or read on:

GnuPG 2.0.14 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or
direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ .  The list of mirrors
can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html .  Note, that GnuPG
is not available at ftp.gnu.org.

On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files
in the gnupg/ directory:

  gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2 (3889k)
  gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2.sig

      GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature.

  gnupg-2.0.13-2.0.14.diff.bz2 (42k)

      A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.13 GnuPG source tree.  This patch
      does not include updates of the language files.

Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2. 


Checking the Integrity
=====================
In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to
install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of
the following ways:

 * If you already have a trusted version of GnuPG installed, you
   can simply check the supplied signature.  For example to check the
   signature of the file gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2 you would use this command:

     gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2.sig

   This checks whether the signature file matches the source file.
   You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and
   made by that signing key.  Make sure that you have the right key,
   either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources
   or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other
   key.  Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command

     finger wk ,at' g10code.com

   or using a keyserver like

     gpg --recv-key 1CE0C630

   The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known key
   5B0358A2.  If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a
   fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged.

   NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE
   INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION!

 * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify
   the SHA-1 checksum.  Assuming you downloaded the file
   gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this:

     sha1sum gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2

   and check that the output matches the first line from the
   following list:

cc5e4637f37f5bc82b00c73fc094ddadb7401821  gnupg-2.0.14.tar.bz2
cad88a7f3653479df41ddb7956b9f8a0ff6f2185  gnupg-2.0.13-2.0.14.diff.bz2


Internationalization
===================
GnuPG comes with support for 27 languages.  Due to a lot of new and
changed strings many translations are not entirely complete.  Jedi,
Maxim Britov, Jaime Su